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![Interview - Horace Cayton, Arna Bontemps, and LeRoi Jones](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1965Call Number: CE 119Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion on the "Negro Identity" - writers discuss social divisions within the Black community and how these difference are being overcome in the wake of artistic rebellion. Includes separate interview with Bontemps on the emergence of Negroes in mainstream entertainment and communications media.
![Interview - Horace Cayton, Arna Bontemps, and LeRoi Jones - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1965Call Number: CE 120Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion on the "Negro Identity" - writers discuss social divisions within the Black community and how these difference are being overcome in the wake of artistic rebellion.
![Interview - Horace Cayton, Arna Bontemps, and LeRoi Jones - Part 2 and 3](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1965Call Number: CE 121Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion on the "Negro Identity" - writers discuss social divisions within the Black community and how these difference are being overcome in the wake of artistic rebellion.
![Black Writers - Horace Cayton, LeRoi Jones, and Ossie Davis](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1967Call Number: CE 124Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interviews with Horace Cayton, LeRoi Jones, and Ossie Davis discussing the conditions of Blacks in relation to white power, liberalism, socialism and war. Also distinction between violent and nonviolent approaches to organizing, and the impact of Black writers on social movements.
![LeRoi Jones on Black Writers: Tell It Like It Is - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/20/1964Call Number: CE 127Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
History of Negro writers and how they had to emerge from "below the veil of anxious politeness" that was set in place by monied white audiences to reveal the true "Black experience" in America. Includes references to most influential Black artists - from jazz musicians to writers. LeRoi Jones reads from article "LeRoi Jones Speaking."
![LeRoi Jones on Black Writers: Tell It Like It Is - Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/20/1964Call Number: CE 128Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
History of Black writers and how they had to emerge from "below the veil of anxious politeness" that was set in place by monied white audiences to reveal the true "Black experience" in America. Includes references to most influential Negro artists - from jazz musicians to writers. LeRoi Jones reads from article "LeRoi Jones Speaking."
![LeRoi Jones on Black Writers: Tell It Like It Is - Part 3](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/20/1964Call Number: CE 129Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
History of Black writers and how they had to emerge from "below the veil of anxious politeness" that was set in place by monied white audiences to reveal the true "Black experience" in America. Includes references to most influential Negro artists - from jazz musicians to writers. LeRoi Jones reads from article "LeRoi Jones Speaking."
![LeRoi Jones Reading of Poems](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 130Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
LeRoi Jones reading poems from his book "The Dead Lecturer". Includes mention of the influence Allen Ginsberg had on Jones' work.
![Kenneth Rexroth, Saunders Redding, Harvey Swados, and LeRoi Jones](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 133Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About tensions and poor communication between different generations of Black writers, how disadvantaged subcultures (like Blacks) have trouble expressing themselves to conventional white audiences.
![Horace Cayton, Ossie Davis, LeRoi Jones](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/9/1964Call Number: CE 137Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About the tremendous racial confrontations Blacks need to go through to establish positions of power. Davis speaks about literature as communication to elevate the Black community. Jones speaks about Black middle class writers imitating white writers to join the middle class.